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How many have said that they want to do great things for God? How many of God’s people want to reach heights of celebrated opportunity and scale tremendous mountains of glory? Oh, I think I can safely say that there are many who fall into that category. One question:Are you willing to pay the price to get there? In the gospel of Mark, two disciples of Jesus laid claim to positions of prominence and requested that Jesus fulfill their desires. Let us listen in on the conversation found in Mark 10:35-40.James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to Jesus and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”

“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked.

They said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.”

Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”